Platinum jubilee
70th anniversary
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A platinum jubilee is a celebration held to mark an anniversary. Among monarchies, countries and organizations, it usually refers to a 70th anniversary.[1]
Platinum jubilees
Monarchs
| Portrait | Monarch[a] | Accession day | Commemoration |
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Afonso I, Count/King of Portugal | 22 May 1112 | 1182 |
| John I, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg (now Bavaria, Germany) | 23 November 1334 | 1404 | |
| Henryk IX Starszy, Duke of Zagan (now Lubusz, Poland) | 14 March 1397 | 1467 | |
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Charles of Artois, Count of Eu (now Normandy, France) | 16 June 1397 | 1467 |
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Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) | 12 August 1429 | 1499 |
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John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (now Saarland, Germany) | 19 October 1472 | 1542 |
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William IV, Princely count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (now Thuringia, Germany) | 26 May 1480 | 1550 |
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Werner of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) | 31 October 1559 | 1629 |
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Henry Frederick, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) | 29 January 1628 | 1698 |
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Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (now Bavaria, Germany) | 14 August 1632 | 1702 |
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Louis XIV of France | 14 May 1643 | 1713 |
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Maeda Tsunanori, Daimyō of Kaga Domain (now Chūbu region, Japan) | 30 April 1645 | 1715 |
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Victor-Maurice, Count of Revello/Marquis of Senonches (now Piedmont, Italy) | 2 July 1656 | 1726 |
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Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (now Thuringia, Germany) | 17 March 1723 | 1793 |
| Eugen Erwein the Posthumous, Count of Schönborn-Heusenstamm (now Hesse, Germany) | 27 January 1727 | 1797 | |
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Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) | 12 May 1738 | 1808 |
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Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (now Thuringia, Germany) | 28 May 1758 | 1828 |
| Parashuramrao Shrinivas I, Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh (now Maharashtra, India) | 30 August 1777 | 1847 | |
| Itō Nagatomo, Daimyō of Okada Domain (now Chūgoku region, Japan) | 17 July 1778 | 1848 | |
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George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (now Lower Saxony, Germany) | 13 February 1787 | 1857 |
| Bishan Chandra Jenamuni, Raja of Rairakhol (now Odisha, India) | 13 March 1825 | 1895 | |
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Mudhoji IV Rao Naik Nimbalkar, Raja of Phaltan (now Maharashtra, India) | 7 December 1841 | 1911 |
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Karansinhji II Vajirajji, Thakur of Lakhtar (now Gujarat, India) | 15 June 1846 | 1916 |
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Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein | 12 November 1858 | 1928 |
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Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo, Zamindar of Chotanagpur (now Jharkhand, India) | 9 July 1869 | 1939 |
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Bhagvat Singh, Maharaja of Gondal (now Gujarat, India) | 14 December 1869 | 1939 |
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Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala (now Punjab, India) | 3 September 1877 | 1947 |
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Sobhuza II of Swaziland (now Eswatini) | 10 December 1899 | 1969 |
| Idris ibni Muhammad al-Qadri, Tunku Besar of Tampin | 31 May 1929 | 1999 | |
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Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand | 9 June 1946 | 2016[2] |
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Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms | 6 February 1952 | 2022 |
Sovereign states and dependent territories
| Flag | Sovereign state or dependent territory[b] | Independence or formation | Commemoration |
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Japan | 11 February 660 BC | 590 BC |
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Iran | 550 BC | 480 BC |
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San Marino | 3 September 301 | 371 |
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France | 10 August 843 | 913 |
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Austria | 17 September 1156 | 1226 |
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Thailand | 1238 | 1308 |
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Ethiopia | 1270 | 1340 |
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Andorra | 8 September 1278 | 1348 |
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Switzerland | 1 August 1291 | 1361 |
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Monaco | 8 January 1297 | 1367 |
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Spain | 20 January 1479 | 1549 |
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Sweden | 6 June 1523 | 1593 |
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Russia | 16 January 1547 | 1617 |
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Netherlands | 26 July 1581 | 1651 |
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Bhutan | 1616 | 1686 |
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Portugal | 1 December 1640 | 1710 |
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Nepal | 25 September 1768 | 1838 |
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United States | 4 July 1776 | 1846 |
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United Kingdom | 1 January 1801 | 1871 |
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Haiti | 1 January 1804 | 1874 |
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Serbia | 15 February 1804 | 1874 |
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Ecuador | 10 August 1809 | 1879 |
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Colombia | 20 July 1810 | 1880 |
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Mexico | 16 September 1810 | 1880 |
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Chile | 18 September 1810 | 1880 |
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Paraguay | 14 May 1811 | 1881 |
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Venezuela | 5 July 1811 | 1881 |
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Luxembourg | 9 June 1815 | 1885 |
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Argentina | 9 July 1816 | 1886 |
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Greece | 25 March 1821 | 1891 |
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Peru | 28 July 1821 | 1891 |
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Costa Rica | 15 September 1821 | 1891 |
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El Salvador | 15 September 1821 | 1891 |
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Guatemala | 15 September 1821 | 1891 |
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Honduras | 15 September 1821 | 1891 |
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Nicaragua | 15 September 1821 | 1891 |
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Brazil | 7 September 1822 | 1892 |
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Bolivia | 6 August 1825 | 1895 |
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Uruguay | 25 August 1825 | 1895 |
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Belgium | 21 July 1831 | 1901 |
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New Zealand | 6 February 1840 | 1915 |
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Dominican Republic | 27 February 1844 | 1919 |
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Liberia | 26 July 1847 | 1922 |
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Denmark | 5 June 1849 | 1924 |
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Italy | 17 March 1861 | 1931 |
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Liechtenstein | 15 August 1866 | 1936 |
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Canada | 1 July 1867 | 1937 |
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Cuba | 10 October 1868 | 1938 |
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Germany | 10 May 1871 | 1941 |
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Montenegro | 13 July 1878 | 1948 |
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Qatar | 18 December 1878 | 1948 |
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Philippines | 12 June 1898 | 1968 |
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Guam, United States | 10 December 1898 | 1968 |
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Puerto Rico, United States | 10 December 1898 | 1968 |
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American Samoa, United States | 2 December 1899 | 1969 |
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Australia | 1 January 1901 | 1971 |
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North Macedonia | 2 August 1903 | 1973 |
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Panama | 3 November 1903 | 1973 |
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Norway | 7 June 1905 | 1975 |
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Bulgaria | 22 September 1908 | 1978 |
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South Africa | 31 May 1910 | 1980 |
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Mongolia | 29 December 1911 | 1981 |
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Taiwan | 1 January 1912 | 1982 |
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Albania | 28 November 1912 | 1982 |
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Ireland | 24 April 1916 | 1986 |
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United States Virgin Islands, United States | 31 March 1917 | 1987 |
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Finland | 6 December 1917 | 1987 |
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Lithuania | 16 February 1918 | 1988 |
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Estonia | 24 February 1918 | 1988 |
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Georgia | 26 May 1918 | 1988 |
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Armenia | 28 May 1918 | 1988 |
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Azerbaijan | 28 May 1918 | 1988 |
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Czech Republic | 28 October 1918 | 1988 |
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Slovakia | 28 October 1918 | 1988 |
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Poland | 11 November 1918 | 1988 |
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Latvia | 18 November 1918 | 1988 |
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Romania | 1 December 1918 | 1988 |
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Ukraine | 22 January 1919 | 1989 |
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Afghanistan | 19 August 1919 | 1989 |
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Åland, Finland | 7 May 1920 | 1990 |
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Turkey | 29 October 1923 | 1993 |
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Vatican City | 11 February 1929 | 1999 |
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Saudi Arabia | 23 September 1932 | 2002 |
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Iraq | 3 October 1932 | 2002 |
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Lebanon | 22 November 1943 | 2013 |
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Iceland | 17 June 1944 | 2014 |
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Belarus | 3 July 1944 | 2014 |
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North Korea | 15 August 1945 | 2015 |
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South Korea | 15 August 1945 | 2015 |
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Indonesia | 17 August 1945 | 2015 |
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Vietnam | 2 September 1945 | 2015 |
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Syria | 17 April 1946 | 2016 |
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Jordan | 25 May 1946 | 2016 |
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Pakistan | 14 August 1947 | 2017 |
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India | 15 August 1947 | 2017 |
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Myanmar | 25 January 1948 | 2018 |
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Sri Lanka | 4 February 1948 | 2018 |
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Faroe Islands, Denmark | 23 March 1948 | 2018 |
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Israel | 14 May 1948 | 2018 |
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China | 1 October 1949 | 2019 |
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Libya | 24 December 1951 | 2021 |
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Egypt | 23 July 1952 | 2022 |
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Laos | 22 October 1953 | 2023 |
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Cambodia | 9 November 1953 | 2023 |
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Morocco | 18 November 1955 | 2025 |
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia | 23 November 1955 | 2025 |
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Sudan | 1 January 1956 | 2026 |
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Tunisia | 20 March 1956 | 2026 |
Organizations
| Portrait | Organization | Inauguration | Commemoration |
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International Olympic Committee | 23 June 1894 | 1964 |
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BBC | 18 October 1922 | 1992 |
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Warner Bros. Pictures | 4 April 1923 | 1993 |
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The Walt Disney Company | 16 October 1923 | 1993 |
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 17 April 1924 | 1994 |
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United Nations | 24 October 1945 | 2015 |
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Disneyland Resort | 17 July 1955 | 2025 |
The most recent monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee is Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms in June 2022. The celebrations were delayed from the actual February anniversary and the ceremony occurred on a four-day Bank Holiday on 2 June 2022, as was announced earlier.[3] Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022, three months after the official celebrations in the Commonwealth took place.
The most recent country to celebrate a platinum jubilee is Tunisia in March 2026. The celebrations were held on 20 March.[4][5]
A 75th anniversary can be referred to as a diamond jubilee occasionally,[6][7][8][9][10] but that term is commonly used to refer to a 60th anniversary.[11] An anniversary of 100 years is simply called a centenary.[12]
See also
Notes
- Monarchs of sovereign states are highlighted in bold, where those who were sovereigns for part of their reigns are underlined and those who were constituent of another state are in italic.
- Sovereign states are highlighted in bold, dependent territories are underlined, former countries are in italic and limited recognized states are unmarked.
